The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word HAVE
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More clues leading to the result HAVE
- Force ace to quit game
- Husband welcome, since brave
- Deprived person of sanctuary with books
- Down-and-out‘s shelter oft unoccupied
- Mendicant seeking refuge and religious books
- Own plane, heading South
- Bravely willing to hold a function
- Poor people in shelters receiving old books
- Place of safety, mainly for a person of means
- Be forced to pare the top off
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The straight part
We know that "Mendicant" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case mendicant = have.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does HAVE mean?
HAVE noun- A wealthy or privileged person.
- One who has some (contextually specified) thing.
- To possess, own.
- To hold, as something at someone's disposal.
- Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject.
- To partake of (a particular substance, especially food or drink, or action or activity).
- To be scheduled to attend, undertake or participate in.
- To experience, go through, undergo.
- To be afflicted with, suffer from.
- (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) Used in forming the perfect aspect.
- Used as an interrogative verb before a pronoun to form a tag question, echoing a previous use of 'have' as an auxiliary verb or, in certain cases, main verb. (For further discussion, see the appendix English tag questions.)
- (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) See have to.
- To give birth to.
- To engage in sexual intercourse with.
- To accept as a romantic partner.
- (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
- (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
- (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)
- (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.
- To defeat in a fight; take.
- (obsolete outside Ireland) To be able to speak (a language).
- To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
- To trick, to deceive.
- (often with present participle) To allow; to tolerate.
- (often used in the negative) To believe, buy, be taken in by.
- To host someone; to take in as a guest.
- To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.
- (of a jury) To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.
- To make an observation of (a bird species).
- A fraud or deception; something misleading.